
I have no idea what to do now, if someone could help me out that would be awesome!” On this screen I hit f2 to get myself to the BIOS menu. I then power it back on and get stuck on the boot screen with the Dell logo on it where it loops infinitely. It does this about eight times before I decide to force shutdown the laptop. Half way through the reset process it hit some type of bump, saying that ‘Windows has encountered an error’. “About 3 days ago I tried to completely reset my Dell laptop. Here is a real case about Dell boot loop: Despite the super performance Dell owns, users are confronted with problems during the usage, like Dell alert hard drive not found, Dell invalid partition table and Dell boot loop.

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Protect your Dell computer with a powerful freeware How to resolve Dell boot loop in Windows 10 easily? That is the sub-genius version.Įdited by pcpunk, 26 August 2021 - 03:10 PM.The issue: Dell laptop stuck in boot loop You could get a cheapo adapter LIKE THIS, or get a quality one. The rest of what you said is true, get an adapter, USB to SATA is all you need.

What did you create your Clone with? You will have to get the Bootable Version of that device. You don't change the Option, you just choose the option you want, and in your case it would be the Flash Drive with the Prefix UEFI. John explained the way to get to Boot Options. So unless you are doing a Clean Install I suggest you leave it as is. You can change to Legacy on most all computers that I know of, but you are already in UEFI, and your Clone is already UEFI. I am past hoping for a simple, elegant solution, I'll be happy with just whatever would work at this point. Anyone have some genius or subgenius insights on how to do this ? Need to put the new drive in an external enclosure then find some way to write the OS image to it. Is there any work around to get my cloned image onto the new SDD ? So far I have only imagined that I would

I have not found away to do a boot from an OS image on an external USB drive, ( which, by some reports, is also not possible ! ) The ultimate goal is to upgrade the SDD from 500 GB to a new 2 TB drive. I have searched dell forums where this question comes up, but have found only the question and no solution. The processor, as many of us know, has no option to downgrade to a legacy bios.Īlso the UEFI bios in the Dell system does not display any alternate " boot from " options. I mean Dell Inspiron 7506 that has a 7th gen processor, and uses UEFI bios.
